Selectric Terminal

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 08:54:35 2004

> IIRC the computer museum of the University Stuttgart
> (Germany) has interfaced a similar machine (Autotypist
> 735) to a pdp8/L.

I took apart an Autotypist (someone had already chucked the
Typewriter that bayonets on top) back in 1980.
The damn thing was a pneumatic player-piano mechanism,
punched hole piano rolls and all.
About equal in geek factor to an analog computer.

John A.
Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 08:54:35 BST